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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825766803321

Titolo

History, power, and identity : ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992 / / edited by Jonathan D. Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c1996

ISBN

1-58729-110-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HillJonathan David <1954->

Disciplina

305.8/0097

Soggetti

Ethnic groups - America

Ethnicity - America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992 - Jonathan D. Hill; Ethnogenesis and Ethnocide in the European Occupation of Native Surinam, 1499-1681 - Neil Lancelot Whitehead; Remnants, Renegades, and Runaways: Seminole Ethnogenesis Reconsidered - Richard A. Sattler; Ethnogenesis in the South Plains: Jumano to Kiowa? - Nancy P. Hickerson; Changing Patterns of Ethnicity in the Northeastern Plains, 1780-1870 - Patricia C. Albers; Ethnogenesis in the Guianas and Jamaica: Two Maroon Cases - Kenneth Bilby

Ethnogenesis in the Northwest Amazon: An Emerging Regional Picture - Jonathan D. HillFighting in a Different Way: Indigenous Resistance through the Alleluia Religion of Guyana - Susan K. Staats; Cimarrones, Theater, and the State - David M. Guss; The Ecuadorian Levantamiento Indígena of 1990 and the Epitomizing Symbol of 1992: Reflections on Nationalism, Ethnic-Bloc Formation, and Racialist Ideologies - Norman E. Whitten Jr.; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For the past five centuries, indigenous and African American  communities throughout the Americas have sought to maintain and recreate  enduring identities under conditions of radical change and  discontinuity. The essays in this groundbreaking volume document this  cultural activity-this ethnogenesis-within and against the broader  contexts of domination; the authors simultaneously encompass the  entanglements of local communities in the webs of national and global  



power relations as well as people's unique abilities to gain control  over their history and identity.By defining